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#PRC: Arms race Scorecard Beijing vs DoD. Grant Newsham, JapanForward

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🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#PRC: 21st Century arms race Scorecard Beijing vs DoD. Grant Newsham, JapanForward

https://japan-forward.com/chinas-nuclear-weapons-expanding-faster-bringing-more-bad-news/

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This is CBS I and the world. I'm John'm John Bachelor. The People's Republic of China,

0:35.2

declaring its hostility towards Taiwan and the whole region, the South China Sea,

0:40.6

the Philippines, expressing that through the PLA Navy. We can see the warships.

0:47.0

We can see the incidents such as the one recently with Australia using forward casting sonar to damage the divers in the water and then claiming

0:57.0

that Australia is lying about why the ship was at the Tewumba was it full stop, hostile action. But that is something

1:06.4

we can see. What we can't see is China's capabilities in terms of its fleet,

1:12.8

its Air Force, its nuclear weapons,

1:16.4

and something new, the hypersonic missiles.

1:19.2

To help me with this, I welcome Grant Neusham.

1:22.1

He is a retired U.S. Marine officer, former U.S. diplomat,

1:26.2

author most recently of when China attacks a warning to America. Grant, my consistent understanding over the years is that every time a new weapon system comes

1:36.2

up in connection to the People's Republic of China, we're assured by public voices, never certain, but they come from the apparatus in Washington,

1:47.8

that they're playing catch-up, that we're well ahead.

1:50.6

Let's begin with carriers.

1:52.4

The Kuzinotov class, a ship they bought or purchased or barded

1:57.1

for with the Russians, and recast. We were told that China is well behind in carrier

2:03.0

carrier ships and that they're playing catch-up.

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